Go through the list of MPs and check if they are included in wikidata

[MansMeg]

Here is a list/csv with all MPs in the book "tvåkammar riksdagen":
https://github.com/salgo60/Wikidata_riksdagen-corpus/blob/main/data/WD%20Register%20%C3%B6ver%20riksdagsmannabiografier%20band%201-5.txt

Probably checking if they exist in wikidata (as a suggestion) can also be done programmatically.

Those marked with wikidata_id have already been included. Two could help out by going through that list and adding the minimum necessary information needed for us to include them in our MP database. So the manual work would be to:

1. Go through the list and for those that are missing wikidata id:
   a. Check if they already exist in wikidata
   If they exist: Add the wikidata_id to the txt-file
   Otherwise: Do a minimal addition of the person to wiki data by including the basic content from the tvåkammarriksdagen book:
   a. The name
   b. Alias (iort/iriksdagen kallad)
   c. Kön, födelsedatum, dödsdatum (if in the book)
   d. described by source where Tvåkammarriksdagsboken is referred to with the correct.
   e. position held. Add one per period in the parliament as an MP (for the correct chamber). See the Tvåkammar book.

Example:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1712821

MPs currently missing in wikidata can be found here: #249

[fredrik1984]

Great! Have I understood it correct that this is the list after the work Sälgö has done with biografibanden for the bicameral riksdag? And it is for us to do the remaining work manually?

Some 1200 persons in the list that do not have a wikidata link

[MansMeg]

Exactly. This would be a first step to check that all persons are in our database. So it should be quite straightforward to do. I tested it and it is just to propose an update to Magnus list if you find a person.

So I guess this is of high priority to do.

[fredrik1984]

Ok, good! Yes, this should be of high priority. Maybe Lotta and Mattias can help out here.

[MansMeg]

I think anyone with the tvåkammar book can do this.

[ninpnin]

Should we also do a sample manually? Programmatic checking is only so reliable.

[MansMeg]

I think we could do that. But we are now going through the register of the tvåkammarbook so I guess it might not be worthwhile (seen as the cost vs the pot benefit). Simply because I think we might only have a handful missing in wikidata. At least not now. I think running the wikiids from salgos list (after emils checks) and compare with our database would be more worthwhile. Then we would catch wikidata people missing in our database and hence find potential errors directly.

[ninpnin]

Then we would catch wikidata people missing in our database and hence find potential errors directly.

Why would we be missing people that exist in Wikidata? We scrape them directly from there.

[MansMeg]

But Im not sure how you filter them, ie define the set of mps from wikidata? Is it individuals that has a position held in the parliament? Some persons might not have that slot so we miss them when we filter them.

Does it make more sense?

[ninpnin]

Fair enough. But I think missing some people when adding thousands of them is also likely.

[MansMeg]

Yes. But if we look at the differences we are probably going to catch both these types of errors. =)

[MansMeg]

Also, the roll call project will probably also capture some missing mps.

[ninpnin]

I mean the list is not going to include anyone who hasn't been added to Wikidata?

[MansMeg]

Yes, it will. The list is the register from the tvåkammar book. Magnus has extracted all names there from the last pages and has started to go through all names to check that they are all in wikidata. Those that are missing are added. Those already are in wikidata just get the wikidata ID in his file.

[BobBorges]

close?